Saturday, March 22, 2014

Earlier this week when I saw the hysterical Chinese woman being forcibly carried from a news conference, one she and a swarm of other relatives of the missing Malay­sia Airlines passengers has literally crashed into, I was incredulous!

"Exactly what does she think she was going to accom­plish? Wailing and screaming and carrying on like that?"

"I think it's a cultural thing," my wife suggested.

"Cultural thing?" Perhaps from a mother throwing herself onto the coffin of a child killed by gang violence in Chicago or South Central Los Angeles, but in Beijing?

3. Crabby said...

Where I draw the line is deciding how other humans should deal with grief. I would hate to be a family member of that flight's manifest.

Maybe your family's way of dealing with death and uncertainty is different. How would they deal with your disappearance/death? Would they celebrate? (Granted, there's always the possibility it was a media-fueled-and-financed-fake-photo op to make their piece more dramatic.)

You are absolutely correct... everyone handles their grief differently. But the sort of out-of-control hysteria exhibited in that instance is inexcusable, and accomplishes nothing more than make others feel worse!